Character
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Hangouts for Rogue Protocol, Darkwire, Slicers to find work, Sushi Lovers and Affiliated Characters.
- Image Credit: DeepAI
- Canon: No
- Permissions: I own FFE and any relevant tech subs.
- Links: Batch, Rogue Protocol, Scylla AI, GONK Droid
- Structure Name: Dark Water Sushi Bar
- Classification: Sushi Restaurant
- Location: Primary: Denon | Secondary: Coruscant | Empress Teta | Nar Shaddaa | Metellos | Taris | Christophsis | Alsakan | Other Ecumenopolis, or Ships.
- Affiliation: Batch, Ghostkey, Glade | Rogue Protocol, Triads, Darkwire
- Accessibility: Dark Water's are found in Ecumenopolis or sometimes on a ship. Anyone can eat there, but almost nobody knows their actual purpose, and they move around. Allowing Keyrunners—fixers for Rogue Protocol, Darkwire, and other slicers to meet their clients or hang out amongst themselves. They are lightly guarded but not overtly
- Description: Set up as an open sushi bar where you can see your food being prepared; there is always a GONK droid hustling noodles in the corner, and lightly covered seating outside. While each Dark Water Sushi Bar is set up slightly differently, there is always artwork on the walls with a double meaning, paper lanterns above, seats and tables to eat or drink at, and likely at least one Atrisian chef with plenty of personality preparing your food. Further inward sealed-off rooms are a closely guarded secret; it's a place to unwind, meet your contacts, grab some noodles, look at the Darkpatch a job board for slicers, send or receive a message, and hide away for an evening.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- GONK Droid Noodle Hustler: In the corner of every Dark Water Sushi Bar is a GONK droid, there is a little difference in personality between each, but GONKing is its business. A modulator strapped to its side plays prerecorded sales pitches in multiple languages, triggered when someone gets close. The hustler never takes no for an answer. Your choices are: GONK, Yes, or to flee to fight another day.
- Glassline Kitchen: over the transparent counter, you can see how your food is prepared and treated. The chefs take their work seriously.
- Community Cipher Murals: coded to give double meanings, markings, rotating in code or with hidden signals, sometimes work, jobs, or warnings. You can also put up your own art for a small fee.
- Drift Deck: Always, even on a ship, there is seating outside the main bar. Usually lightly covered, or maybe a cargo hold on a ship, it offers a different locale to sit in.
- Public Terminals: Without fail, one or two public terminals are available, often accompanied by a 'scrap' outdated discarded slicing deck lying around, all in various states of disrepair. Occasionally, one plays a holonews feed, old Correlian blaster-punk, Echani martial arts, Zama Shiwo vid, or other forgotten b-holomovie, but never too loudly, or the chefs will get irate.
- Stimcaf Machine: Always there with forty options, but never guaranteed to be filled.
Inner Areas: Past the main bar, there is always a closed internal area.
- Null Grid: Inside every Dark Water bar there is a Blackstar Relay access to contact Rogue Protocol or a few others, always hidden, always heavily encrypted, something barely anyone knows about.
- Backcut: A hidden meeting spot that the crew or a select few others use, behind a second hidden door in the back, or sometimes underground depending on space.
- Spinal Jacks, Neuromancers, and Vexwires: Cybernetic experts, neural specialists, and street surgeons can operate in the back, these skilled synthetic surgeons offer good to excellent quality work depending on who it is.
- Drift Den: A single comfortable chair offering AT Access straight into your cortex, Slicers drift off sometimes for hours, sometimes longer in either blissful experiences or work within a network; others claim they interfaced and spoke to something within the access link itself.
- Memory Safe: Glade will sometimes set up a small makeshift memory safe, a cabinet to hold discarded, often mundane items that people don't want anymore, till she ships them to one of her memory vaults.
- Ghost Tab: Sometimes your bill gets paid; maybe a signal, sign of respect, test, or warning. The bill payer's name lets you know.
- Signal Drift Laterns: Dim harmless paper lanterns are above; a few regulars swear their flickering means something. Code and transmissions broadcast from the most unlikely of sources.
- Chef's Blade: Impossibly sharp, the chef's blade never seems to dull; whispers of Khagnati or Khaganate bladesmiths supply the kitchen, and you could meet a master of their craft quietly eating on his day off.
- Phantom Pond: Subtle Holo-projected fish swim on the walls, matching the tone of the conversation, usually very relaxing but alerting you if something isn't right by sight.
- Darkpatch Access: A Bounty Board for Slicers. On a small holoarcade machine, if you enter the right codes as your name and high score, you'll get access to the underworld's latest illicit work and jobs. Usually nothing Rogue Protocol or Darkwire-related, but it might get their notice. Plug and play in the creditchit slot with your equipment offers a download or upload if you need to.
SECURITY
Medium
Physical security is usually just two or three staff members with a blaster, or slugthrower, maybe a hidden firing slot in the wall, cameras, and a silent alarm. Always an Ion or EMP pulse to fry hardware is present both in the access to the Blackstar Relay and in the main bar. Maybe a basic turret or two if it's working; these can be any ad-hoc small cheap turret. The main guard against a threat is that these bars can easily be packed up and moved on a ship, like a food truck would. Rumor has it the GONK droid has a fearsome strong kick or headbutt.
Slicing Security is second to none. The encryption on these bars is 32896 bit, with ten firewalls, two Scylla AI offering an AI, and an AI watching an AI. You'd probably have to be a Synth Prophet or Hypermind to break the cybersecurity. The AI is also modular, meaning it's going to be the best the groups have, as is the cybersecurity here to guard it, likely backed up by a crew member counter-slicing.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Dark Water Sushi Bars have been around since Darkwire's time, a hangout in District 12, where diners eat beneath Denon's rainy, neon-glow skyline. Batch once ran a kitchen for refugees aboard the Vagrant Fleet, where he learned the value of mobility—the ability to pack up and move when called for. The bar may look cluttered and well-worn, but it's designed that way, blending seamlessly into towering cityscapes. A Zone Alchemist always tags along for its setup, ensuring every detail fits just right, with many of the crew at home in the clutter.
No longer just a hangout, Dark Water Sushi Bars now operate like food trucks in space, often set up aboard ships, giving Rogue Protocol a place to regroup and recharge between jobs. Glade takes special pride in adding small, sentimental touches—personal, deliberate, and often unexpected. The bar may be temporary, but its meaning never is.
Hidden darkpatch connections exist for passing slicers. If you are in the know, a bounty board to find work on the undernet or undervine is always present. This is just one of several things you can find here if you are respected enough: medical attention, upgrades, restricted access, and probably some first-rate spire hardware.
The Denon Exception
District 12 is home to the original and only permanent Dark Water Sushi Bar. Across the street, Beebo's Bantha Burgers—for reasons no one fully understands—has an ongoing rivalry with the bar. The family-run business has even been known to open locations right next door, across the galaxy, seemingly just to drive them out. In response, slicers have been known to pull a few pranks, harmless most of the time.
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